Pastor Rusty Milton
“Husbands, love your wife“
Ephesians 5:21-25 esv 

To love sacrificially means to be more concerned with what I can give rather than what I can get it. Selfishness is the opposite, seeking only one you can get from other people. Husbands are commanded to love their wives and selfishly just as Christ loves the church. But what does it mean for a husband to truly love his wife on a daily basis? It’s important to appropriately interpret love as an action rather than just a feeling. It is the action of being committed to your wife’s good, giving up yourself for her. Motivation counts: give up your life not to get things from her, but so that she can better represent the image of God.

Our primary obstacle in our lives is our own selfishness. But, with the help of the Holy Spirit, we are given the power to lay down our lives and initiate love.

Ephesians 5:21–25 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;